On 30/01/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There are a lot of things we could do to enhance the
popularity of
commons, but the page name issue really should be solved first.
It's in the long term plans for mediawiki to support filenames which
are unrelated to the file type.... but even using that will require
massive renames on commons. Does anyone have any suggestions? There
are a lot of possibilities.
I would imagine some renaming thing would be part of the transition,
don't you? Even if it was just Foo.jpg to Foo-jpg or 'Foo jpg'.
I am pretty sure the file storage transition thing will also allow
image renaming as a consequence.
The limited details I have found about it are at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap ("Expand FileStore to
all image storage for filename reform, better cache/mirroring
ability")
and
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileStore .
Another question is.. are we ready to handle an
increase in public visibility?
IMO that's a pretty clear "of course not".
Anyway, just wanted to say that I strongly oppose disallowing
anon-page creation, at least until SUL has been implemented. After
that, I will re-evaluate my position.
Just delete the crud. It's not a disaster, it's just the fact in the
life of a completely open wiki.
cheers
Brianna